Richard Pryor is one of Peoria’s most famous hometown heroes and so today I’ve chosen a half a dozen links to online stories and photos of Peoria’s original bad boy and a link to my favorite stand-up bit of his. And then there’s the MBIP Coming Attractions for next week! So there!

Richard Pryor’s Peoria - This is billed as a digital companion to the biography Becoming Richard Pryor and there’s all kinds of Peoria-related stories, influential Peoria people in his life and stories from different eras about Pryor growing up in Peoria.

The Best Richard Pryor Movies Ranked - I don’t agree with the rankings, no way is “Brewster’s Million’s” his second best movie, but it is interesting to see all the films he made. I forgot about a lot of these and now I’m going to re-watch “Lady Sings The Blues.”

Tomorrow we have a special wedding post for the MBIP Saturday night feature. Two of my best friends, Jeff and Chris Stokowski’s son Pat was married to Val in a wonderful wedding ceremony and then a fun reception followed at The Peoria Gateway Building. I saw lots of friends from the past and got to witness this bizarre eating of the hands ritual that young people now do to each other after they’re wed. I tell ya, these kooky kids these days!

Wednesday I’m going to be showing Farmer Ted’s Lego Land which you have to see to believe!

Thursday is going to be an entry in our Places In Peoria series and this week’s place is The Greg and Dan Show Radio Cave because I’m going to be a guest on their show this Tuesday sometime around 8:40 AM, so I’ll be taking photos of the cave that they broadcast the show from and posting them on Thursday.